Aggai

Aggai (17-87 AD) was the Patriarch of the East from 77 to 87 AD, succeeding Jude Thaddeus and preceding Saint Mari.

Biography
Aggai was born in 17 AD, and he worked for Abgar V of Edessa as a weaver of Chinese cloth before his master's death, upon which he fled into the east. He became one of the original Seventy Disciples of the Christian Church, preaching throughout Persia, Assyria, Armenia, Media, Babylonia, Khuzestan, and up to India. He later returned to Edessa, fearing that the faith there might decline because of the native superstition of Thaddeus' son, who succeeded him as King. Thaddeus' son asked Aggai to weave cloth for him just as Aggai had done for his father, but Aggai said that he wove cloth while Thaddeus was a preacher, and that, since preaching was now his job, he could have no other. Abgar's son, angered by this response, had Aggai's leg bones broken and martyred him.